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In April 1946 she landed a record trip in the South Wales port. An 11-day trip netted her 1,380 boxes of hake. Three years later, on August 15, 1949, reports came through that the trawler had picked up 49 people – four of them dead – from an American Skymaster airliner which had crashed into the sea off the west coast of Ireland.

There had been 58 passengers and crew aboard. Six others were picked up by the 1,121-ton Limerick steamer Lanahrone.

The aircraft, carrying Italian emigrants to Venezuela, was bound from Rome to New York and was due at Shannon Airport at 1.30am. It crashed 32 miles from its destination.

Skipper of the Stalberg at the time was Alfred Stanley Brown who had been with Consols for 27 years and a skipper for 13. The crew of the trawler actually saw the plane crashing.

Shortly after that incident the trawler, together with a number of others, was brought back to Grimsby. A worn out boiler put an end to her fishing career.